Os de 60 anos ou mais: Um em cada seis paulistas, e um em cada três nas cidades pequenas do noroeste

Cerejo, Lucas Nakamura

doi:10.5281/zenodo.23540365

No. 065 Census · income People across the land 3/4

Those aged 60 and over

One in six people in São Paulo, and one in three in the small towns of the north-west

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Map of São Paulo state with census tracts in six shades of blue, from near-white to petrol, by the share of residents aged 60 or over. The north-west and west are a dark mosaic; Greater São Paulo and the area around Campinas are paler, with dark dots. Confidential tracts are hatched. Callouts point to Águas de São Pedro, with 34%, and Cajamar, with 10.6%. In the panel, the share of population in each class and bars with the share aged 60 or over by intermediate region, from 20.1% in Presidente Prudente to 16.6% in São Paulo. — Fig. 065 São Paulo State (SP) EPSG:4674 Source: IBGE

In 2022, 7.65 million people in São Paulo were aged 60 or over: 17.2% of the population, one in six. Over a million were past 80. Tract by tract, the map shows where they live. The dark blue of tracts where over 30% are 60 or older, home to 3.4 million people, spreads across the north-west and west: in the Presidente Prudente region, 20.1% are 60 or over; in the São Paulo region, 16.6%. In small towns such as Turmalina, Nova Canaã Paulista and Santana da Ponte Pensa, almost one in three; in Águas de São Pedro, 34%, the highest share in the state. Cajamar, in Greater São Paulo, is the youngest of the towns of over 50,000 people, with 10.6%. Plate 064 shows median age and the ageing index by municipality. Third plate of the collection “People across the land”.

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setores polygon 103,319 tracts: people by age group and 60-plus class (the same layer as plate 063)
regioes_intermediarias polygon 11 intermediate geographic regions
limite_estadual polygon State boundary

Metadata

Sources: IBGE — 2022 Population Census: census tract aggregates (demography) (2022)
IBGE — 2022 Population Census: table 9514 (resident population by sex and age) (2022)
IBGE — 2022 Census Tract Mesh (2022)
Extent: São Paulo State (SP)
CRS / Projection: SIRGAS 2000 (EPSG:4674)
EPSG:4674
Software: Node.js · d3-geo · QGIS
Method: People aged 60 to 69 and 70 or over as a share of each 2022 Census tract’s population, in six classes; confidential counts are worth 1 or 2, and a tract gets a class only when it is the same in both cases; state, municipal and regional totals from SIDRA 9514, without confidentiality.
Version: v1.0.0
Licence: CC BY 4.0
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23540365

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Cerejo, L. N. (2026). Os de 60 anos ou mais: um em cada seis paulistas, e um em cada três nas cidades pequenas do noroeste [Those aged 60 and over: One in six people in São Paulo, and one in three in the small towns of the north-west] (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23540365

@dataset{cerejo2026_idosos_sp,
  author    = {Cerejo, Lucas Nakamura},
  title     = {Os de 60 anos ou mais: Um em cada seis paulistas, e um em cada três nas cidades pequenas do noroeste},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23540365},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23540365},
  language  = {portuguese},
  note      = {English title: Those aged 60 and over: One in six people in São Paulo, and one in three in the small towns of the north-west. Licence CC BY 4.0}
}

How to read this plate area, projection, scale, legend and source · 2 terms

1 Area: São Paulo State (SP) The area the plate covers. Outside it, neighbours and sea are drawn in grey, just for orientation.
2 Coordinates and projection: SIRGAS 2000 (EPSG:4674) The layers are in SIRGAS 2000; the drawing’s projection is written in the colophon at the foot of the panel.
3 Scale: Graphic scale bar in the panel The scale bar is true on the central meridian; away from it, measured distances vary a little.
4 Legend and layers: 3 layers in the GeoPackage · polygon Read the legend before the map: it tells you whether a colour is a rate or a class, and whether a circle is a total.
5 Sources: IBGE (2022) Every figure comes from a public source, with its year. The data sheet gives each one’s address.

Terms on this plate

Census tract: The smallest collection area of the IBGE Census, a few hundred households each. It is the finest grain at which income, sanitation and housing can be seen without identifying anyone.
2022 Census: IBGE’s door-to-door count. Results by census tract give residents, age, household-head income, water, sewerage and rubbish.

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Method notes · No. 065

People aged 60 or over by census tract in São Paulo

Português · English

Plate No. 065, the third of four in the collection People across the land. Median age and the ageing index by municipality are on plate 064.

What the files contain

Layer (GPKG)	Geometry	Content
`setores`	polygon	103,319 tracts: `pessoas` (people), people by age group (`idade_0_a_4` … `idade_60_a_69`, `idade_70_ou_mais`) and `classe_60_mais` (1 to 6); also the density of plate 063
`regioes_intermediarias`, `limite_estadual`	polygon	reference

It is the same GPKG as plate 063, in the assets of the gente-sp-2026 release, with the QGIS style 60_anos_ou_mais.

Method

2022 Census tract aggregates, demography group: resident people (V01006) and people aged 60 to 69 (V01040) and 70 or over (V01041).
Share aged 60 or over in six classes, closed on the right: up to 10%, 10 to 15%, 15 to 20%, 20 to 25%, 25 to 30% and over 30%.
Confidentiality: IBGE replaces small counts with “X”. In the SP data no 1 or 2 appears in these variables, so an X is worth 1 or 2. The class is computed with X = 1 and with X = 2; if it is the same, the tract gets it; if not, it is left as no data. An X never becomes zero.
State, municipal and intermediate-region totals come from SIDRA 9514, which has no confidentiality.
On the plate, tracts become a grid of about 200 m so the whole state can be drawn.

Limitations

2,731 tracts, with 173,568 people, are hatched as no data: small tracts where confidentiality leaves the class open.
In tracts with few people, one family changes the class; the strongest tones of the rural interior add up many small tracts.
Long-term care homes for older people count as collective dwellings and are part of the population of the tract where they stand.

View this map’s folder on GitHub